Pain is not a punishment. And pleasure is not a reward. You could argue that failure is not punishment and Success is not reward. They're just failure and success. You can choose how you respond.

Success is a label that the world confers on you, but mastery is an ever-onward 'almost.'

We thrive not when we've done it all, but when we still have more to do.

Mastery is in the reaching, not in the arriving.

To reach an audacious goal, we sometimes benefit from having it lie just beyond our grasp.

Play allows us to maintain curiosity while learning.

Mastery is in constantly wanting to close the gap between where you are and where you want to be.

Coming close to what you thought you wanted can help you attain what you never dreamed you could.

The pursuit of mastery is an ever-onward almost.

Completion is a goal, but we hope it is never the end.

We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down.

The master who fears the choices his people will make enough to take those choices away isn't worth serving.

Books think for me.

The most powerful way to manifest is through subtle intention and choiceless awareness-inten d to let go and flow.

Where ideas are concerned, America can be counted on to do one of two things: Take a good idea and run it completely into the ground, or take a bad idea and run it completely into the ground.

Every man must form himself as a particular being, seeking, however, to attain that general idea of which all mankind are constituents.

Something having been done just about everywhere just about always is no kind of justification for doing it now.

Why live for the approval of men when you can have the approval of their Creator? What can they give you that God can't?

Make the impossible possible, the possible easy, the easy elegant.

If a man who cannot count finds a four-leaf clover, is he entitled to happiness?